burying ground

Questions about burying ground

What does burying ground mean?

burying ground means "a tract of land used for burials".

What is another word for burying ground?

Close synonyms include cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, memorial park. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is burying ground a common word?

burying ground is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.